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The 2026 Women's Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers is a women's football competition that will determine the 11 teams joining the automatically qualified host Morocco in the 2026 Women's Africa Cup of Nations final tournament.
On August 2, 2023, South Africa beat Italy 3–2 to qualify for the Round of 16. This was the first World Cup victory for the women's team, and also the first time in South Africa's history that either the women's or men's team has qualified out of the group stage.
Nigeria won the Women African Cup of Nations 2018, achieving a 4-3 penalty shootout victory against South Africa in the final. The title was Nigeria’s third consecutive and eleventh overall Africa Women Cup of Nations title and cemented their place in the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, where they would subsequently reach the round of sixteen.
In the long term, Caf will also aim to assist the two African qualifiers for the inaugural 16-team Fifa Women’s Club World Cup, which will be played in early 2026. "We want to make sure we have ...
As of 2023, four of the six FIFA confederations have made it to a Women's World Cup final, the only exceptions being CAF (Africa) and the OFC (Oceania). CONMEBOL is the only confederation to have made a World Cup final without winning, following Brazil 's defeat in the 2007 final .
FIFA announces 2026 World Cup final location. Years ago, when FIFA's members entrusted the U.S., Canada and Mexico with the 2026 World Cup, New York was the presumed final favorite. But throughout ...
After its failed bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Australia has considered a joint bid with neighbouring New Zealand, an OFC member with which they co-hosted the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. [89] [90] Australia re-established this intention in August 2021, shortly after Brisbane's success in bidding to host the 2032 Summer Olympics. [91]
[16] [17] In the knockout stage, South Africa beat Tunisia 1–0 despite dominating the game to qualify for both the semi-finals and the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. [18] They then had to rely on a last-minute injury-time penalty to overcome the emerging African women's force Zambia 1–0 in the semi-finals to progress to its 6th and back-to ...